But students did not want their activity fee used to pay for talk. The Washington University College Democrats started a Facebook event called “No thanks, Bristol!” that attracted 1,153 supporters at last count.

“It's not that we don't support abstinence as a legitimate approach to sex on campus, but that we're paying an inordinate amount of money on a panel and a speaker that really don't deserve such resources,” the event’s organizers wrote on the social networking site.